Walled Garden Including East Gateway, Darnaway Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Walled garden.
Walled Garden Including East Gateway, Darnaway Castle
- WRENN ID
- third-gateway-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Type
- Walled garden
- OS grid reference
- NH 996 545
- Coordinates
- 57.57005, -3.67885
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Darnaway Castle dates from the later 18th or early 19th century and features a large square garden enclosed by rubble walls topped with a tooled ashlar coping. There are entrances located to the north and west, with an additional entrance on the east side designed in the style of Sir Robert Lorimer around 1925. This eastern entrance is marked by a pair of tall polished ashlar piers that have ribbed and blocked pilaster strips on either side, rising to moulded cornice caps that support finials shaped like (deer?) hounds. The entrance also includes a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates beneath a matching overthrow, which displays a gilded coat of arms and features gilded berry detailing in its foliate decoration.
Local climate
Walled Garden Including East Gateway, Darnaway Castle receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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